Vernon Coaker
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Vernon Coaker has been the Labour Party MP for Gedling since 1997.
Coaker was appointed shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland in 1997.[1] Following the September 2015 Labour leadership election, Coaker resumed the role of shadow Northern Ireland secretary which he had served under Ed Milliband, moving on from shadow defence minister. [2]
Contributions and secondments
Between April 2014 and April 2015, 13 members of the Labour Party received a total of £597,404 in secondments from the Big Four accountancy firms (PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloitte and Ernst and Young). During this time Coaker received a secondment worth £13,039 from KPMG.[3]
Affiliations
- Labour Friends of Israel - in January 2014 Coaker took part in an MPs' factfinding visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories with defence and security focus. [4]
Notes
- ↑ Vernon Coaker, www.parliament.uk, 24 August 2013.
- ↑ reference needed
- ↑ Carlos Martin Tornero Labour to win, if Big Four donation patterns become self-fulfilling prophecy The Accountant, 5 May 2015, accessed 18 May 2015.
- ↑ ref needed here too
